Frescoes of Kholodnyi Yar
Фрески Холодного Яру
One of the artist's best-known canvases, from the historical cycles that grew out of his journeys through Ukraine; Kholodnyi Yar is the forest tract that has stood for Ukrainian insurgency since the Haidamaka risings.
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